October 2007

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

"Books calling for the beheading of lapsed Muslims, ordering women to remain
indoors and forbidding interfaith marriage are being sold inside some of
Britain’s leading mosques, according to research seen by The Times.

Some of the fundamentalist works were found at the bookshop in the London
Central mosque in Regent’s Park, which is funded by the Saudi regime and is
regularly visited by government ministers. Its director, Ahmad al-Dubayan,
is also a Saudi diplomat and was among those greeting King Abdullah when he
arrived in Britain last night for his official state visit.

Extremist literature, including passages supporting the stoning of adulterers
and waging violent jihad, was also found on sale at many other mosques
regarded as mainstream institutions."

"ANTWERP, Belgium:
Sacha van Loo, 36, is not your typical cop. He wields a white cane
instead of a gun. And from the purr of an engine on a wiretap, he can
discern whether a suspect is driving a Peugeot, a Honda or a Mercedes.

Van Loo is one of Europe's newest weapons in the global fight
against terrorism and organized crime: a blind Sherlock Holmes, whose
disability allows him to spot clues sighted detectives don't see."

...

"The blind police unit, which became operational in June, originated
after van Thielen heard about a blind police officer in the
Netherlands, and was looking at ways to improve community outreach. He
made the connection that blind people could prove more adept than the
sighted at listening to and interpreting wiretaps. That idea, he says,
was given added impetus after the Belgian government passed a law a few
years ago giving the police extended powers to use wiretaps in the
investigation of 37 areas of crime, including terrorism, murder,
organized crime and the abduction of minors."

...

Amazing!

"The police also recognized that blind officers like van Loo could be
particularly valuable in counterterrorism investigations because
wiretap recordings - derived from a phone tap or bug placed in the safe
house of a terrorist group - are often muffled by loud background
noise, requiring a highly trained ear to discern voices. Alain
Grignard, a senior counterterrorism officer at the Brussels Federal
Police, notes that wiretaps proved instrumental in the recent arrests
of a large terrorist cell in Belgium recruiting for the insurgency in
Iraq."

Irvine, CA--The Senate will soon decide whether to ratify the Law of
the Sea Treaty, which deems most of the earth's vast ocean floor "the
common heritage of mankind" and places it under United Nations
ownership "for the benefit of mankind as a whole.”

"This treaty vests monopoly authority over most of the world’s
seabeds in a U.N. agency that issues licenses burdened by complex
regulations, fees, royalties, and mandatory land transfers," said Thomas Bowden,
an analyst at the Ayn Rand Institute. "Licensees are required to give
back half or more of the submerged land they explore, to be mined by
the International Seabed Authority using the licensees' technology and
know-how, with proceeds going to U.N. members such as Cuba, Uganda, and
Venezuela, who contribute nothing to the productive process.

"The proposed treaty ignores the fundamental principle that unowned
natural resources should become the private property of the people
whose efforts make them valuable," Bowden said. "Although the ocean
floor is full of potentially valuable minerals, they remain useless
until some pioneer discovers how to retrieve them. Under this treaty,
however, the deep-sea mining companies whose science, exploration,
technology, and entrepreneurship are being counted on to gather
otherwise inaccessible riches are treated as mere servants of a world
collective.

"This treaty is an injustice that will hamper, if not halt, the
exploitation of undersea wealth," Bowden said. "Because no
self-respecting entrepreneur will work under such conditions, the U.N.
regime will attract only the kind of lumbering state-owned enterprises
that have historically failed to match the performance of private,
profit-seeking companies."

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently held hearings on the
treaty, which has the support of the Bush administration. The treaty,
which President Reagan refused to sign in 1982, was submitted to the
Senate by President Clinton in 1994 but never ratified. The treaty
requires a two-thirds Senate majority for ratification.

"Governments have legitimate options regarding how to deal with
undersea explorers' need to establish property rights in the deep
ocean," Bowden said. "But it would be totally improper for America to
declare eternal hostility to private property in the ocean floor by
ratifying a treaty dedicated on principle to denying such rights."

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Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's eloquence; and you may like to read/write poetry or novels. You contribute to the smart people of today's society, however you can probably be overly-critical of works.
It's okay. I understand.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Price. Former winners include famous terrorist Yassir Arafat the modern father of Airplane hijacking, famous liar Rigoberta Menchù who changed her lifestory to fit into communistic propaganda, Wangari Maatahai who has claimed that AIDS is biological weapon invented by white people to wipe out black africans, and Jimmy Carter.